The British essayists; to which are prefixed prefaces by J. Ferguson, Volumes 27-34 |
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... action repeated as another has a pleasing sound , since he only hears , as I only see , and we neither of us know that there is any reason- able thing a - doing ? Pray sir , settle the business of this claim in the audience , and let us ...
... action repeated as another has a pleasing sound , since he only hears , as I only see , and we neither of us know that there is any reason- able thing a - doing ? Pray sir , settle the business of this claim in the audience , and let us ...
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... action its proper weight and repose . I can stifle any violent inclination , and oppose a torrent of anger , or the solicitations of revenge , with success . Indolence is a stream which flows slowly on , but yet undermines the ...
... action its proper weight and repose . I can stifle any violent inclination , and oppose a torrent of anger , or the solicitations of revenge , with success . Indolence is a stream which flows slowly on , but yet undermines the ...
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... action of one's life . It were as little hazard to be lost in a storm , as to lie thus perpetually becalmed : and it ... actions it has produced . 1 ' The time we live ought not to be computed by the number of years , but by the use that ...
... action of one's life . It were as little hazard to be lost in a storm , as to lie thus perpetually becalmed : and it ... actions it has produced . 1 ' The time we live ought not to be computed by the number of years , but by the use that ...
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... actions are of no significancy to man- kind , and might have been performed by creatures of much less dignity than those who are distinguished by the faculty of reason . An eminent French author speaks somewhere to the following purpose ...
... actions are of no significancy to man- kind , and might have been performed by creatures of much less dignity than those who are distinguished by the faculty of reason . An eminent French author speaks somewhere to the following purpose ...
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... action as that I have been speaking of , I shall present my reader with a faithful copy of it ; after having first informed him , that the deceased person had in his youth been bred to trade , but finding himself not so well turned for ...
... action as that I have been speaking of , I shall present my reader with a faithful copy of it ; after having first informed him , that the deceased person had in his youth been bred to trade , but finding himself not so well turned for ...
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Page 58 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere, Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King ! Ah, wherefore?
Page 88 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 61 - Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty seemed lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom...
Page 312 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
Page 87 - Awake : The morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us ; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Page 260 - O ! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine ; Or find some other way to generate Mankind...
Page 279 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.
Page 188 - Thou sun, said I, fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
Page 189 - Under his forming hands a creature grew, Manlike, but different sex ; so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the world, seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up, in her contain'd, And in her looks, which from that time infus'd Sweetness into my heart, unfelt before, And into all things from her air inspir'd The spirit of love and amorous delight.
Page 81 - What thou see'st, What there thou see'st, fair creature, is thyself; With thee it came and goes...